What is the most effective way of reaching anyone in the world, including the pro tennis tour players? The old saying is true "no one cares how much you know until they know how much you care."
Defining:
1. Compassion. ( I wrote on this in last weeks blog)
2. Compassion + friendship = effectiveness in reaching others.
3. Compassion + friendship + experience in what another person has gone through in life (next weeks blog) = super relational effectiveness in reaching others.
How this impacts you.
1. I have people who come up to me and say "you are doing a great job" or pat me on the back and say "well done" This is compassion for what I do but not necessary for who I am.
2. Then I have people who stay in contact with me when they do not have to reply to a message that I send to them. They are truly interested in me as a person and what is happening in my life. They are friends at all times and in all circumstances.
3. Then I have people who really want to join in what I am doing and walk in my life and come alongside to help out. They can understand beyond friendship. Listen to Joe South's 1970 hit song "Walk a mile in my shoes"
You can have compassion, be a friend and have experienced what I have gone through in life. - These are the friends that I choose.
The Bible is not silent when it comes to the subject of friendship. The word "friend" is found about seventy times in the Bible.
A man or women that has friends must show himself or herself friendly. - Proverbs 18: 24
Genuine friends must be cherished and not forgotten - Proverbs 27: 10
Read the past blog archives here.
